Ancestry of
Sumner Sewall

58th Governor of Maine

Persis Hemingway

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Sumner Sewall — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 29 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Hemingway 
  • Mother:
  • Lucy Stone   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Apr 1769 
  • Birth Location:
  • Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Mar 1812 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Revolutionary Cemetery, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Luther Richardson
  • Marriage Date:
  • Jun 1790 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Charles L. Richardson (Ahnentafel No:14 )

  • Notes: 

  • Persis Hemingway's maiden name is also seen as Hemenway.

    Vital records give Luther Richardson and Persis Hemenway as JUN 1770. This is obviously an error and should probably read 1790.

• Sources for Persis Hemingway

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/25/2020).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Framingham, Vol. 1, p. 109, Birth record for Persis Hemenway .
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sudbury, Vol. 1, p. 216, Marriage of Luther Richardson and Persis Hemenway in Framingham.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1907, Vol. 61, p. 123, Cemetery record for Persis Richardson.
  • ⁵ Bartlett, J. Gardner, Simon Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Deacon Simon Stone of Watertown, Mass., 1320-1926, Boston: Stone Family Association (1926), 144.
  • ⁶ Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 74.
  • ⁷ Vinton, John Adams, The Richardson Memorial: Comprising a Full History and Genealogy of the Posterity of the Three Brothers . . ., Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston and Co. (1876), 254, 317.